So they told us that "no economics experience was necessary" to do well in this Law & Econ course. Well....I feel like I'm the only one in the class who has no idea whats going on. I was a supplement junkie last semester and did very well but I can't find anything good for law and econ. Anybody have any ideas?

read Economics of Justice by Posner or any number of his smaller law review articles from early on in his career (maybe late 70s to mid 80s). The Becker/Posner blog is a good start at reading short things where u can see this kind of reasoning applied.

you don't have to buy a supplement and understand economics other than supply and demand basics to get the points that law/econ scholars are making.

jkech wrote:read Economics of Justice by Posner or any number of his smaller law review articles from early on in his career (maybe late 70s to mid 80s). The Becker/Posner blog is a good start at reading short things where u can see this kind of reasoning applied.

you don't have to buy a supplement and understand economics other than supply and demand basics to get the points that law/econ scholars are making.

I think a lot of law and econ is actually game theory based. I took a class in it once that was ostensibly for "everybody" as well, but probably at least 1/2 of the class had a background in econ, much like when I signed up for a law and history class, just about everybody had a background in history.